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2013 is the year of Vice Admiral Smoker, as the smokey Marine has made rare One Piece action figure appearances in the Bandai Figuarts Zero One Piece line, the Bandai Chozeki Damashii Law’s Ambition set and even as an Ichiban Kuji prize figure!

And now the unstoppable juggernaut that is timeskip Smoker merch continues with the just-released Banpresto One Piece Grandline Men Vol. 16 Vice Admiral Smoker figure!

Bandai Figuarts Zero One Piece figures of both Smoker and Tashigi have been released before, depicting their pre-timeskip appearances, but we’ve never seen them released in major figure form before like this! ​Based on their appearances in the Punk Hazard arc of the One Piece manga (which is happening right now in the anime), it’s the all-new One Piece Figuarts Zero 2013 figures of Vice-Admiral Smoker and… uh, well… a Tashigi that’s a whole lot different from any that’s come before…

Last year Bandai kicked off their One Piece New World-themed Chozokeii Damashii line with two different sets of figures depicting the Straw Hat Pirates in their outfits from the Fishman Island arc of the One Piece anime and manga. While those sets were cool, they were a little, uh… lacking… in character diversity. I thought Bandai might do another set with Hody Jones and some of the New Fishman Pirates, but Bandai had other ideas–they’re jumping straight to the extremely popular Punk Hazard arc with heavy-hitters like Shichibukai Trafalgar Law, Tashigi, and Vice-Admiral Smoker!

After an abnormally long and agonizing wait, the Banpresto One Piece Grandline Men Vol. 16 figures were announced last week, and among them is one of the most-wanted timeskip characters: Vice-Admiral Smoker of the Marines!